Root partition and usrland on one slice, /usr/local ports and src on another

[Eugene Grosbein]

11.11.2017 22:50, lankfordandrew at charter.net пишет:
> When I installed FreeBSD 10 on an old laptop, I wanted to merge both
> the root partition heirarchy (kernel /bin /sbin etc) and the rest of
> Fbsd usr-land together onto one slice. I like upgrading from source,
> but I do that more frequently with ports than the OS-proper. When I
> need to boot up single user, it seems rather quaint these days (at
> least for a laptop user) to have to mount /usr in order to get
> reasonably the functionality from applications that use shared
> libraries (vi, man pages, etc). The likelyhood that I'm going to fall
> back on a serial port and an ASR-33 tty are nil.
> 
> So what I'd like to do is put the entire freebsd system on one fairly
> small, pristine slice, but put the more bloated and ephemeral src,
> ports, /usr/local, /home portions on one big slice. I tried symlinks
> between "/src" or "/usr/src" and "/usr/ports" and tweaking some build
> variables, but it seemed like something always breaks in some bizarre
> way whenever I tried to rebuild world. I guess a lot of the strange
> behavior showed up in /src/contrib and the gnu licensed side of the
> build system. Can anyone suggest some docs on /src and ports,
> specifically for what I'm trying to do besides "man src"?

I do that for years for eight major releases at least and have no problems
making symlinks /usr/src -> /usr/local/src, /usr/obj -> /usr/local/obj,
/usr/ports -> /usr/local/ports.

What kind of problems do you have while building world and
why do you think that problems are due to symlinks?

Eugene Grosbein